The Survivors Guide from The Overnight Website Challenge
Building Professional Drupal Websites Faster and More Efficiently on a Deadline
Building a professional Drupal website under time constraints is never easy. There are numerous roadblocks, bottlenecks, and a variety of challenges that are specifically unique to quick-turn Drupal projects. Overcoming these difficulties can only be done through experiences.
This session will share the experiences, findings, tips, and tricks that a team of 10 Drupal developers uncovered as they embarked on their return trip to the Overnight Website Challenge. This 24-hour hack-a-thon style event pits teams of web developers against the clock as they develop professional level websites for deserving non-profits.
2012 Recap of Team Drupal Rocks! at Overnight Website Challenge
About the Overnight Website Challenge
Join us for this enlightening session in which we explore what lessons we learned in the 2012 challenge and how it shaped our 2013 strategy. Benefit from our mistakes, our successes, and how you can directly apply this into your day to day development routines.
This session will include...
- Strategies that succeed and failed when you’re building a Drupal project on a tight deadline.
- What to bring when you’re pulling an all-nighter and coding Drupal.
- How to know when you are your worst enemy in the midst of a project.
Comments
I wish I could be a part of the action for the Overnight Website Challenge, but since I can't I'm really looking forward to your session. Is coffee on the list of things to bring to an all-nighter, or do you prefer an apples and water strategy? Or would answering that be a spoiler?
Oh you don't need to bring coffee or red bull, that's provided by the event managers. But bringing a pillow and a sleeping bag is advisable. Saying more would probably spoil things.
I'm always interested in hearing about how other shops manage tight deadlines. Great topic.
We're gearing up for the event this weekend. I'll try to post links to the pictures and video we produce.